Live Auction 2397Three Decades with Irving Penn: Photographs from the Collection of Patricia McCabe
Christie’s roundel
Lot 19 Penn, in his passion to record the human condition, has travelled the world, has photographed with an obsessive fervor the guises in which men live out their lives.
Alexander Liberman

IRVING PENN (1917-2009)

Three Asaro Mudmen, New Guinea, 1970

Closed14 April 2010

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USD 110,500

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IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Three Asaro Mudmen, New Guinea, 1970
gelatin silver print, printed 1984
signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered '12834' in ink, inscribed 'Merry Christmas for Pat with love' in pencil, Penn/Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the reverse of the mount); one of an edition of 25
19 x 19in. (48.8 x 48.8cm.)